Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "Samcrac" channel.

@mikaeljonsson4686 They are not cheap. They need maintenance at the correct times. Do not cry if you neglect maintenance then parts fail. It is not a Ford. They are refined. This car has done over 100K miles. Things wear.
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Only Americans say that. There are Range Rovers all around me, and not once have I have ever seen one broken down. They have used BMW and Rover engines, yet they always appear to brake down in the USA. I surprised he never mentioned Lucas eclectics - yet again I have had countless cars with Lucas with all being perfect. Must be the air in the USA.
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The engine is a BMW, not a Rover engine. The Rover V-8 was highly reliable.
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@Jeff N The engine is German. Cork was used for rocker box covers a long time ago - never seen it used for anything else. At the time of this cars manufacture no cork was ever used in British made engines. After-market companies made better non-cork gaskets. Thermostat gaskets were made from a paperish type of material, needing sealant on each side to make the seal. Rubber would perish quickly. Until rubbers were improved, British makers (and that includes Ford and GM in the UK) kept away from the material for seals.
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The Germans also stole the engineering - sort of. Rover engineers in England were designing a small hatchback car. When BMW sold Rover they took all the engineering material off them. Rover asked for it back. BMW said at a price, which was horrendous. So, a fortune to get back what you did. Rover said "no". A small car appeared in Germany as the BMW 1. Basically engineered by Rover.
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What is so frightening about a blown head gasket in a BMW engine? BTW, that BMW engine is much superior to most American engines of that era.
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@JasonSmith-ns1bi This is not bad. It is a blown head gasket, no more. Quite common really, as every mechanic has come across one or two in his time. He is trying to prevent the cost of replacing the gasket. So far he has spent a fortune on all sorts of liquids. It would have been better, and quicker, to have replaced the head gasket immediately. BTW, that BMW engine is a decent engine. But I think this is an exercise to see if the head gasket seal liquid works.
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The cost of a new head gasket is not that great. Well worth doing.
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If you get this car for zero dollars then you pay for a new head gasket, you have one hell of bargain, and a brilliant vehicle to drive.
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 @scottnathanphoto Nonsense.
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@stiggyness1976 They are also made in Liverpool and China for the Chinese market - it the car to have there. I have a relative who works for JLR. He has a very different opinion than you. He says JLR know their market for each model and the operating conditions & how they are driven in that market. No one buys these to use for three years on desert roads, so it is not built to those standards, although the original 1970s Range Rovers could do that, which were built for operating on farms in 4x4, with rubber mats and a slanting floor to brush out the mud. They make the car to suit to the buying market and the operating conditions of how they use the car. JLR are highly focused on image, as that what sells these cars, and reliability. Despite what US auto Internet plants say, Range Rovers are reliable. They drop in the table when a new model is introduced when the gremlims that show up after customer use have yet to be eliminated. A new so-called unreliable model in its first year would not be in the table in the second.
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@mugs2169 On upmarket cars likes these with masses of unnecessary gimmicks (that is what sells them), the electrical systems are always extensive. The problems tend to be on parts that rarely get used. Like an electric seat moving motor that has not been used for years with the seats rails not greased.
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@mugs2169 What you write applies to any vehicle with over 200K miles. That this car has gone over 200K miles is a testament to its build quality. It was not designed, or built, to reach those miles. An automotive design engineer friend told me, cars are designed to have minimal Noise, Vibration, Harshness (NVH) for the first five years. After that they can rattle all the way. The makers do not want them to last longer than 10-12 years. He says low NVH can be extended way beyond five years by regular servicing and using high quality fully synthetic oils, in the engine, transmission and diffs. He says change manual transmission oil at 500 miles to get rid of harmful swarf, then at half the intervals of what the makers say - similar with engine oil. Also when the dampers wane use high quality gas dampers. Also tyres that improve the noise intrusion as well.
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@Jeff N You could buy gasket paper. A sheet of special paper that say you would press a thermostat housing on leaving an imprint. They cut around the imprint giving you a gasket. Then use a smear of gasket sealer on each face. I believe it is still available as vintage car restorers use it to make unavailable gaskets. This is also instant gasket out of a tube, which many do not like using.
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@bigmac22ify You made that up.
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You have to replace the thermostat.
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@Toby_the_Glen Where I live is crawling with Range Rovers, and has been for as long as I can remember. Not once have a I see one on a trailer or broken down at the side of the road. Up market Range Rovers, like all upmarket cars, need servicing at the correct intervals, using quality fully synthetic oils and quality fuel. In short, look after them. Don't do it then this happens.
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@nucl3arfamily906 You need to read up on the history of the Buick/Rover engine. In 1960 Buick made a superb short block lightweight engine for the time - even a cast iron version was made. Users did not put the right radiator inhibitor in the engines - it is aluminium - causing problems. So Buick decided to drop this economical and advanced for the time engine, as it was misunderstood in the USA. Also as fuel in the USA was too cheap - pennies - economy never mattered in the USA. Rover was looking at producing a new engine in 1963, saw, and were baffled, that Buick was discontinuing the engine, which was exactly what they wanted fitting their engine family. They pretty well sealed the deal on the floor of a motor show, saving Rover a fortune, and time, on R&D. Rover took the engine and then proceeded to change it to their requirements, even having the head engineer of the Buick engine project in England while this was going on, so he could be referred to as a consultant - he was bored stiff not doing much. As time went on, little of the Buick design was left. Even the casting was changed as well. When BMW bought Rover, the Rover engineers were told to design cars to accommodate BMW engines and put BMW engines into the existing range. Rover engineers were not that impressed with BMW engines, knowing their own V-8 inside out. The Rover engineers knew how to fine tune the engine for various applications, with most BMW engines not having that flexibility. They would design car engine bays not to take BMW engines, to the annoyance of BMW in Munich. The Rover V-8 is the finest V-8 ever made. It was also used by Range Rover, Land Rover, Rover cars, MG, Morgan, TVR, etc, in saloon cars, SUVs, sports cars, rugged 4x4 vehicles (the US Rangers have Land Rovers with the engine) - the lot. It was also made under licence in Australia by Leyland. When it was discontinued, critics said it had another 10 years of life left in it, the design was still sound. Replacing the tooling was a reason why the engine was discontinued in 2006. It was made for 46 years.
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@nucl3arfamily906 As I wrote: "You need to read up on the history of the Buick/Rover engine." "The Rover V-8 is the finest V-8 ever made." V-8s are now passé.
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@nucl3arfamily906 BTW, a neighbour friend of mine engineered the fuel injection of the early 2000's Range Rover Sports models. He never worked for Rover, he was with an outside consultancy brought in for a niche update - quite common, all major auto companies do it. He admired the engine. He bought an old Range Rover, installing the new injection system he designed, using the development injection system, which was to be thrown away.
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@peterdurnien9084 That must be Liverpool.
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@peterdurnien9084 "There's too much stuff on it, more stuff more to go wrong." That is the nature of all upmarket cars. It goes with the territory.
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@peterdurnien9084 "They were made is about a mile away from the airport." I have a relative who works at Jaguar Land Rover. He said the they are no less reliable than other comparable cars full of gadgets. They take reliability very seriously. You should not be using Rage Rovers on an airport. Basic Land Rovers is what you need. You have the wrong type of vehicles for the job. These days you need simple EVs for that job, with plug in points easy to fit all over the airport. Then you will have all eight cars full working 24/7.
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@1chish In looks and style the Range Rover leaves all US SUVs standing. A lineage back to 1970.
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